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"Magnitude" in a Sentence (12 examples)
An earthquake of magnitude 5 shook Tokyo.
I've never seen a pearl of such magnitude!
This oil field used to produce an order of magnitude more oil as it does now.
I hadn't realized the magnitude of the problems.
He realized the magnitude of his crime.
A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the Japanese islands today.
The Japan Meteorological Agency has revised the magnitude of the eastern Japan quake from 8.8 to 9.0, the largest recorded in world history.
Unfortunately, three days ago a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Japan's Tohoku region.
Five tremors in excess of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale have shaken Japan just this week, but scientists are warning that the largest expected aftershock has yet to hit.
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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And on a programme of works of this magnitude, passengers will need to be mindful of the age-old maxim of 'no gain without pain'.
Observations in the infrared domain allow one to penetrate the ~25-30 magnitudes of extinction present at visible wavelengths.
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